This chapter gives a quick summary of some of terminology you may meet and screenshots to illustrate the concepts in action.
Technical terminology can be especially confusing in different contexts. These short descriptions are aimed to disambiguate some of the potentially problematic terms we use.
Platform: In the context of this chapter, 'platform' refers to any of the websites available for you to publish your video online.
Content Management System (CMS): A system with an interface that allows you to manage content easily on the internet.
Self-hosting: Self hosting in the context of video distribution refers to the process of using your own storage space for the video content that you upload. This can be contrasted to using a services like YouTube to host your video.
HTML5 & Flash Video Players: A video player is the code needed to play a video. In this guide we focus on web-based players that work within web browsers.
Streaming video: The process of streaming video delivers video from a server to the viewer in real time.
Downloadable video: To offer your video as a downloadable file allows your views to save a copy of the video as a file on their computer. This is valuable for helping offline distribution and reuse of your video in other ways.
Metadata: Metadata in our context of video hosting is
Aggregation & Syndication: These terms became increasingly popular with the advent of RSS technology specifically for news fe
Bandwith: This is the amount of data you transfer to and from your Internet server. in this context it may also be a bill that you have to pay. This bandwidth restriction is something that may restrict the scale of video sharing site you provide.
Server Storage Space: The amount of disk space that you need to rent will go up dramatically if you start to host video on your web server.
Closed and Open Captions: Subtitles can be delivered in different formats. Closed captions are seperate from the video image while Open captions have the text 'burned in' to the images. Closed captions make it easier to deliver multiple versions of subtitles without changing the core video file.
Due to the limitations of the size of this guide it is tatical at this point to provide links to resources that will allow you to extend your knowledge in this area. Some of the resources that we think are most relevent are as follows;
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